City of Boscobel v. Muscoda Manufacturing Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Jud*ge. Contract. The plaintiff city was the owner of two engines and two steam pumps and other equipment formerly used by it in connection with its municipal lighting plant. The defendant is engaged in the manufacturing business in the city of Boscobel, and on December 23d the parties entered into the following contract: “Boscobel, Wis., 12/23, 1919. “Sold to Muscoda Mfg.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Jud*ge. Contract. The plaintiff city was the owner of two engines and two steam pumps and other equipment formerly used by it in connection with its municipal lighting plant. The defendant is engaged in the manufacturing business in the city of Boscobel, and on December 23d the parties entered into the following contract: “Boscobel, Wis., 12/23, 1919. “Sold to Muscoda Mfg. Co., Muscoda, Wis. “The power, plant formerly used by the city of Boscobel as an electric light plant, consisting of 2 boilers, 2…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed July 13, 1921:
RoseNberry, J.
Two principal questions are raised upon the appeal: First, Did the contract of December 23, 1919, vest the title to the property in the defendant ? Second, Did the court err in refusing to submit to the jury the question of whether or not the plaintiff was guilty of negligence in permitting its lessee, the George L. Hunt Manufacturing Company, to maintain upon the premises an unsafe stove and thereby materially increase the hazard to which the property of the defendant was subjected?
A preliminary question was suggested upon the…
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